Sunday, September 20, 2020

Vocalization Perchance Mammal


being gone, the human art 

of the guitar inside gone quiet


a deep summertime carol fading

off some brackish beach, the poverty


of legs wrapping up a dance, bending

taking you down, just enough fade


to pluck the string of enemy death, but

before you punch the last card, sweetheart


say quintessential bridal lizard, let the combination

pour over your teeth, hear the first caveborn syllable


obliterate the prophylactic bubble 

of sound and sense, take a bow and drown


typical candle predator spurreth, metropolitan

cartoon cemetery, population cough prey


let it go, what incantations 

in a last gasp, grabbing words, pushing them


together, making an infamous tongue constellation

making a wave that floats on long after the collapse

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1 comment:

  1. Wow! What a mad and splendid ambition! (Or a reframing of final incoherent babblings?) So many wonderful phrases here – apart from the italicised – expressing wonderful concepts, I can't single out particular ones; love 'em all.

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